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reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts dedicated to 
avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is finding the right name.

An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from Marketing 
101 that expressing something as a positive is better than a negative. 
Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, but that's imprecise because 
the artifacts in there will contain a variety of things in addition to 
reference counting-related artifacts.

Ideas?


Andrei
Jan 13 2016
next sibling parent rsw0x <anonymous anonymous.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?


 Andrei
std.experimental.mm ? mm => memory management It would be interesting to know what you plan on putting in there. There's a few functions that duplicate utility in Phobos but one allocates and the other doesn't — e.g, lineSplitter. lineSplitter is 4-5x faster than the equivalent GC version(splitLines) according to my benchmarks. I think one of the bigger issues with Phobos using the GC isn't that it uses the GC, but many functions allocate far more than they need to. I've seen Rust referred to as too focused on memory management(in fact, I think it was you that referred to Rust as this) but I think D sometimes goes in the opposite direction making it too easy to forget about memory management and just allocate everywhere because it's very implicit. Bye.
Jan 13 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent userABCabc123 <userABCabc123 ab.bc> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?


 Andrei
std.experimental.gcfree std.experimental.unmanaged std.experimental.uncollected std.experimental.mmm (manual mem managment)
Jan 13 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Ilya <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?


 Andrei
std.memory --Ilya
Jan 13 2016
parent ref2401 <refactor24 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 02:13:20 UTC, Ilya wrote:

 std.memory --Ilya
That's a good one.
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Meta <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?


 Andrei
Aside from that, naming it std.experimental.nogc is a bad idea because it'll confuse newcomers, thinking it's somehow related to nogc... Which it is, but we don't want people importing std.experimental.nogc because they think they need to do that to use nogc. Ideas: std.experimental.gcless (still negative) std.experimental.gcfree std.experimental.realtime std.experimental.pausefree std.experimental.manualheap std.experimental.manualmem
Jan 13 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton I'd go with std.memory or std.memory_management as others have suggested.
Jan 13 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Anonymouse <asdf fdsa.nu> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.
std.samesamebutdifferent
Jan 13 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?
std.experimental.lifetime
Jan 13 2016
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 01/14/2016 12:48 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
 On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts dedicated to
 avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from Marketing
 101 that expressing something as a positive is better than a negative.
 Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, but that's imprecise
 because the artifacts in there will contain a variety of things in
 addition to reference counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?
std.experimental.lifetime
noice -- Andrei
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2016-01-14 01:35, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts dedicated to
 avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from Marketing
 101 that expressing something as a positive is better than a negative.
 Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, but that's imprecise because
 the artifacts in there will contain a variety of things in addition to
 reference counting-related artifacts.
std.experimental.memory with submodules for the different use cases: std.experimental.memory.rc std.experimental.memory.gc std.experimental.memory.manual // or something -- /Jacob Carlborg
Jan 13 2016
next sibling parent Brian Schott <briancschott gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 std.experimental.memory with submodules for the different use 
 cases:

 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
Agreed.
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Robert burner Schadek <rburners gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 std.experimental.memory with submodules for the different use 
 cases:

 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
this has my vote I guess the first submodule should be the allocators!?
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply bachmeier <no spam.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
+1
Jan 14 2016
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 01/14/2016 09:50 AM, bachmeier wrote:
 On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
+1
I don't see how this categorization works. E.g. there's no need for special tooling related to the GC. -- Andrei
Jan 14 2016
next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2016-01-14 15:52, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I don't see how this categorization works. E.g. there's no need for
 special tooling related to the GC. -- Andrei
It was just a couple of suggestions. I don't know exactly what you're going to include in this module. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Jan 14 2016
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 01/14/2016 10:46 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2016-01-14 15:52, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I don't see how this categorization works. E.g. there's no need for
 special tooling related to the GC. -- Andrei
It was just a couple of suggestions. I don't know exactly what you're going to include in this module.
Me neither, which adds to the problem :o). -- Andrei
Jan 14 2016
next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2016-01-14 17:11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Me neither, which adds to the problem :o). -- Andrei
You need to at least have some ideas, otherwise there's no point in a new module :) -- /Jacob Carlborg
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling parent Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:
On 15/01/16 5:11 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 On 01/14/2016 10:46 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2016-01-14 15:52, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 I don't see how this categorization works. E.g. there's no need for
 special tooling related to the GC. -- Andrei
It was just a couple of suggestions. I don't know exactly what you're going to include in this module.
Me neither, which adds to the problem :o). -- Andrei
I can already suggest one thing. I'm currently working on a library solution to my managed memory concept. I should have it completed within a day or so. I will be replacing the dummy ref counted solution I built for alphaPhobos with this. As it allows me a LOT more control over the memory. And it will be wonderful for containers with secondary ownership and all that :) http://wiki.dlang.org/User:Alphaglosined/ManagedMemory
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling parent ZombineDev <valid_email he.re> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 14:52:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 On 01/14/2016 09:50 AM, bachmeier wrote:
 On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:

 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
+1
I don't see how this categorization works. E.g. there's no need for special tooling related to the GC. -- Andrei
That's not true. All of http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory is about the GC. If some of the low-level stuff are put in druntime, then this categorization would look nice: core.memory.gc (previously just core.memory) core.memory.manual (something along the lines of https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3031) core.memory.rc (Unique/Isolated and Shared smart pointers)
Jan 17 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 On 2016-01-14 01:35, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to
 avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is finding the 
 right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing
 101 that expressing something as a positive is better than a 
 negative.
 Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, but that's 
 imprecise because
 the artifacts in there will contain a variety of things in 
 addition to
 reference counting-related artifacts.
std.experimental.memory with submodules for the different use cases: std.experimental.memory.rc std.experimental.memory.gc std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
+1
Jan 16 2016
parent karabuta <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 15:56:39 UTC, karabuta wrote:
 On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:
 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
+1
Simplifies things IMO
Jan 16 2016
prev sibling parent reply qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 07:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 std.experimental.memory.rc
 std.experimental.memory.gc
 std.experimental.memory.manual // or something
This "rc" is "reference counting"? Reference counting is also a form of garbage collection ("gc"). So I don't like this classification. If we really want "rc", then something like "trace" instead of "gc" should be the alternative.
Jan 18 2016
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2016-01-18 09:40, qznc wrote:

 This "rc" is "reference counting"? Reference counting is also a form of
 garbage collection ("gc"). So I don't like this classification. If we
 really want "rc", then something like "trace" instead of "gc" should be
 the alternative.
They are suggestions. More an indication that he doesn't need to come up with a weird name that can fit anything. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Jan 18 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Jack <jack gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 
 Ideas?

 Andrei
std.experimental.rusty
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent Guillaume Piolat <contact gam3sfrommars.fr> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Ideas?
import std.experimental.gcbypass; import std.experimental.gcfreedom; import std.experimental.shuntgc; import std.experimental.rcinstead; import std.experimental.manual;
Jan 14 2016
prev sibling parent Chris <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
 Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
 dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
 finding the right name.

 An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
 Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
 than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
 but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
 contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
 counting-related artifacts.

 Ideas?


 Andrei
Will there also be an article about how to integrate the new memory model(s) into existing code? Something along the lines of "How to make existing code GC free". It'd be great to have a guide that shows how to do it properly.
Jan 15 2016